Hi 01micko. I 've done the first test on a machine with an AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 graphic card, Intergraph 19sd5 screen. Usually running live on different machines, I always check to use the video wizard. The test started bad, it would not start X. I followed the options in the video wizard, and ended up in a shell with xorg.conf: two active 'Devices' are listed, Card1 with driver 'r128', and Card2 with driver 'vesa'. Last line gives PuppyHardwareProfile=ATI_RAGE12819sd95, so 'r128' should be the correct driver.
Back in the ordinary wizard window:

Resolution: x pixels

Horizontal frquency: KHz

Refresh frequency: Hz

Video driver: modesetting

After choosing 'vesa' instead, I was sent back to the setup page, set 1280x1024, chose 'test', and got a dialog window that told me X was working, entered 'xwin', and got a window. Incorrect size, does not fill the screen, way over past the left side. Running PupControl-Settings-Basic Settings, I was told that 'vesa' is running, and I should run the Video Wizard to find an xorg driver instead! Instead I rebooted, and started without choosing the video wizard option, set 1280x1024, and it opened normally, but with a window that does not fill the screen, and is off center. After running the xorgwizard several times and trying all the ATI drivers listed, it suddenly loaded a window normally, with the r128 driver. My ZTE MF636 USB modem did not connect. There is of course the possibility that the machine is not 100%, but the ordinary Slacko-5.4 started without any issues on this machine. I'll set up some other machines for testing.
BTW: 'The Focus Model (sloppy or click)' setting is listed twice in the ~/.JWMRC, I definitely hate the new jwm window buttons cursors, and the option to set larger buttons is missing in jwm-config.

Thanks for testing. Part of your X problems is my fault. I should have left the "modesetting" driver in the alternate location so it doesn't try to load. It does conflict with some drivers. Anyway, that was almost certainly a typo because I have been through that routine many many times and know I didn't forget it. This kernel is only temporary too as I reckon the kernel video drivers are better in k3.2x and 3.4x.

As for jwm cursors, I'll see if there is some configuration to turn therm off. I don't think it matters about 2 focus entries in JWMRC, this file is not read by jwm but used to generate the ~/.jwmrc. As long as jwm -p isn't returning anything we are good. I'll address the button sizing, it is now dependant on the height of the title bar.

I did a no, no a my computer Dell D430 today and made a NTFS partition and did a frugal install of slacko 5.4.0.1.

created a savefile with a ext2 file in it and increased by 8gb Installed wbar and Manna along with wine and BibleAnaylzer. rebooted and twice and everything is still working so far.

I made a button on jwm taskbar works,

The only thing I have ever notice with slacko and any puppy besides lupu is that when I use a different resolution so that things are bigger I only get the screen in a smaller window and does not fill the screeen. I don't know if this would be a bug or not, but I don't think so maybe a different driver.

I have downloaded and used the Firefox version of 5.4. Both the Firefox 17.0 and the update 18.0.1 behave strangely, so I would like to use a Seamonkey. The ones listed in the original ppm are v.2.12.1 at 88 Mb, and v.2.14 at 90 Mb, both from the slackware-14.0-official repo.
Is there a smaller puppy version suitable for Slacko 5.4? I only need the browser. If not, will there be one in the next version? Or a Surfer? I don't like Opera, but I'll burn a CD now to try it.

tallboy_________________True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.

It is recommended to get seamonkey from the updates manager (see Setup > System menu). PPM quotes the size uncompressed, it's about 23M download. I don't compile it any more as it's too big for me. That's what swayed me to Opera, only 13M pet. You can update the database in PPM and then updates manager shows the very latest from slackware's changelog, bug fixes and security fixes. It is still under development and soon I hope to add a button to update the database form there. Seamonkey I think is at 2.15.1 now, You can check to see if your database needs updating by comparing the changelog (button) with the packages offered in the gui._________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

The updates manager now can update, it does it so fast that it should do it on every startup! At maximum it will only have to deal with 30 or so packages. Just click the button and in seconds it updates, have to restart the gui manually though. This saves the kludge though of updating PPM if you want to keep seamonkey/firefox updated. Slackware release very quickly after mozilla announces.

The gui is fully gettexted too so translators, if you want to add translations feel free, and I'll add them to the package, it's not so much to translate so can be in the default package.

EDIT: SORRY, package is broken .. if you have it uninstall it! updates_mgr-0.4.pet_________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith | Last edited by 01micko on Sat 02 Feb 2013, 08:30; edited 1 time in total

Trying to get the Slacko 5.4 Opera version to load X, produced the same negative result as reported for the test version in the same machine. The 'modesetting' driver is present in /usr/lib/x/drivers-alternate/. AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128._________________True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.

As for rage 128.. are you using a 1366x768 monitor? If so it is a pain to get going, I have one, uses the mach64 xorg driver (the modesetting driver is ok in /usr/lib/x/drivers-alternate, where it is supposed to be). You may need to use xrandr manually to achieve 1280x720 resolution which I do. This bug is solved in next woof (see Barry's Blog)._________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

Been running your 00 version and have notice 01 is out and now downloaded..

Can I continue to use the 00 save-session with 01? Will 01 recognize and use it?

Thanks for your hard work._________________Get ACTIVE Create Circles; Do those good things which benefit people's needs!
We are all related ... Its time to show that we know this!
3 Different Puppy Search Engineor use DogPile

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum